Culpeper Connections
Quarterly Journal of the Culpeper Genealogical Society

We are looking for an editor for this newsletter. If you are interested in becoming the editor please contact President Donna S. Boyd,

1117 Virginia Avenue, Culpeper 22701 or e-mail her at [email protected]

Back issues are available for $7 per issue or $20 per volume.  Prices include postage.  Please indicate which issues or volumes you would like to purchase, make your check payable to CGS, and mail your order to CGS, P.O. Box 1326, Culpeper, VA 22701. 

Regular Features in the journal:

• Yesterday's News - includes newspaper articles from the past pertaining to Culpeper.

• In pursuit of - queries

• On the Web - web sites of interest to genealogists

• Genealogical Tidbits - conferences, new books, and other information of interest to genealogists

Vol. 1 No. 1 August 2001

• Views From Cedar Mountain - by Rev. Slaughter, D. D., written in the seventy-sixth year of his age.
• 1895 Directory Town of Culpeper, Va. (continued in next issue)
• Bell-Smith Cemetery, Culpeper; includes description and photos of tombstones
• Will of William Green - dated 11 July 1829
• Optometrists in Culpeper County
• Two Michael Wilhoits - an extended query

Vol. 1 No. 2 November 2001

• Library of Virginia's Digital Library - by Carolyn Green, a description of the information available and search tips.
• 1895 Directory Town of Culpeper, Va. (continued from previous issue)
• New Information for Crigler Researchers - from George Bryson
• Culpeper Genealogical Society Visits Salubria and Germanna Visitors' Center - article describing CGS's field trip to these two locations.
• "I'm Loyal to the South!" - transcription of a letter from Jaquelin M. Wood while in prison, dated 17 September 1862, to Col James Barbour claiming his loyalty to the Confederacy

Vol. 1 No. 3 February 2002

• Preserving Photographs - article by member Willis Wood describing various techniques for preserving and organization photograph collections.
• Preparing for the Release of the 1930 Census - article by Diane Nesmeyer describing the finding aids available for states that have not been indexed.
• Culpeper Military Institute - transcription of the 1857-58 catalog
• Slave Emancipations Recorded in Culpeper County Deed Books - submitted by member Carolyn Green, list of slaves emancipated by their owners found in the grantor index dated 1749-1913.
• Roll of Colored Voters Registered at East Catalpa - submitted by member Donna S. Boyd, transcription of the colored voter registration book of East Catalpa for a registration held 18 September 1902.

Vol. 1 No. 4 May 2002

• Fairview Cemetery in Need of Help - article from the Culpeper Star-Exponent by Allison Brophy, dated 26 May 2002.
• Some Culpeper County Legislative Petitions - transcription of several petitions submitted to the Virginia Legislature by Culpeper County citizens:  The Memorial of John Dixon, 20 June 1780; William Bradley's petition, 30 May 1782, offering land which later became the town of Stevensburg; John Smoot, 7 [Dec?] 1810 requesting permission to remove his slaves from Maryland to Virginia; Armistead Long, 13 Dec 1810 requested permission to remove his slaves from Maryland to Virginia; Nelly McIntosh, 23 Dec 1813, an emancipated slave, requesting permission to remain in Culpeper Co.; William Crittenden Appleby, 15 Nov 1829, natural and adopted son of William Crittenden, requesting his name be changed to William Crittenden.
• Spitler Graveyard - WPA report from Page County, VA, documenting the Spitler Graveyard, dated 2 Nov 1936
• 1859 Catalogue of the Piedmont Academy - transcription of.
• Index to Volume 1

Vol. 2 No. 1 August 2002

• CGS Celebrates One-Year Anniversary
• Reading Weathered Marble Gravestones Requires a Knowledge of the Carver's Craft - article by John E. Sterling, reprinted from The Association for Gravestone Studies
• Culpeper Cemeteries - transcribed by member Julie Bushong from a notebook belonging to Mildred ConwayJones
• Armistice Day 1918 - 1931 November 11 - submitted by member George Bryson, article from the Culpeper Exponent dated 5 Nov 1931 listing the men from Culpeper County who served in WW I, also includes a list of casualties

Vol. 2 No. 2 November 2002

• Indexes:  Can You Trust Them? - article by Charles S. Mason, Jr., CGRS
• Culpeper Citizens in the Acts of the General Assembly
• 1917 Culpeper Telephone Directory

Vol. 2 No. 3 February 2003

• 1880 Defective, Dependent, & Delinquent (DDD) Schedule - article about the schedule and a transcription of the schedule for Culpeper Co.
• "Typing Every Word" article by Patricia Law Hatcher, CG, FASG, reprinted from the Ancestry.com weekly digest
• Bowen vs Green, transcription of a chancery suit between James Bowen, administrator of Sally Green's estate and Elizabeth Green, Nancy Green, and others - submitted by member Carolyn Green, Amissville, VA
• Documents at the Home of Miss Helen Turner - transcript of a WPA report dated 15 June 1937 concerning several documents covering Culpeper and other VA counties at the home of Miss Helen Turner of Newport News, VA - submitted by member Teresa A. Kelley

Vol. 2 No. 4 May 2003